![]() ![]() He had been introduced to marijuana in 1955 by his first patient while working as a health services counselor at Stanford University but Leary took him farther with psilocybin, the compound that gives certain mushrooms hallucinogenic qualities. Things began to change when Leary joined the Harvard faculty and the two became close friends. Ram Dass would later describe himself at the time as a driven “anxiety-neurotic” who had an abundance of knowledge but lacked wisdom. ![]() from Stanford University, was an up-and-coming psychology professor and researcher at Harvard University in the early ‘60s. ![]() He considered himself an atheist, and after graduating from Tufts University and earning a Ph.D. The man who would become a serene, smiling forerunner of the New Age movement and play a leading role in bringing Eastern spirituality to the West grew up as Richard Alpert in a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts. “He was a guide for thousands seeking to discover or reclaim their spiritual identity beyond or within institutional religion.” “With tender hearts we share that Ram Dass (born Richard Alpert) died peacefully at home in Maui on Decemsurrounded by loved ones,” according to his official Instagram account. (Reuters) - Ram Dass, who in the 1960s joined Timothy Leary in promoting psychedelic drugs as the path to inner enlightenment before undergoing a spiritual rebirth he spelled out in the influential book “Be Here Now,” died at home on Sunday. ![]()
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